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I have been trying to change the yellow color of the highlight (selection) in DVD Author after reading about the Hex Editor and changing the 44 44 to 33 33 blue and that is what I want, it worked, almost. This worked for the first two menu's but I cannot change the rest of them (6 menu's total 1 main and 5 with 6 chapter motion thumbs each) . They still show up as yellow. Anyone have any success with changing all of the menu's to have the highlight from yellow to another color?
OK, if you have more than one page for Chapters it is a little more complicated, as the bytes in the vob file are at different byte offsets from the beginning of the file. However this can be solved with vobedit (get it from Derrow: http://mpucoder.kewlhair.com/Derrow/index.html ).
Procedure:
Open the VTS_XX_0.vob with vobedit (open button in the lower left corner)
In the left window you see the "content" of the vob file. Double click on the first line 000000 [Navigation Pack] [VOB: 1]
A Hex Editor window pops up. Change the "44 44" bytes in the line 000000A0 to your preferred values like "33 33" and click "OK"
Back in the "Main Vobedit window" scroll down the left window until you find the next "[Navigation Pack]"entry. Double click on the line and change again the "44 44" in the Hexeditor at line 000000A0. Do this for all "Navigation Packs"
The changes are saved immediately.
After an hour of changing each one, and still not done, I have decided that it's just not worth it. I either need to make only a two menu(one main the other chapter)movie with TMPGEnc (the yellow is easy to change then)or accept the fact that I would have to do so much more work to get it to another color or use another program entirely. Thanks for your reply I was really happy to see the color change but don't have the patience or time to go through every navigational link and change the color on all the movies past menu 2.
Hopefully this color change will be something that TMPGEnc will add in the future. Otherwise I am really happy about the program but will be using another program until this is changed.
TMPGEnc, Thank you for making a really good program, love the motion thumbs that you don't have to render yourself and the GUI is also very nice. And thank you for the 30 fully functional free trial.
>After an hour of changing each one, and still not done...
OK, I understand!
If you are still interested in this topic, there is a very fast possibility:
Use the hexeditor from nextsoft: http://download.nextsoft.de/hexedit.zip
It's German, but you can change the language to English if you like (menu: "Optionen"->"Einstellungen" click on the directory symbol, choose English. Close and restart the Hex-Editor)
Open your VTS_XX_0.vob file with this hexeditor. Use the search & replace function. Search for: "000000444473A0111173A00000000000"
replace with "000000333373A0111173A00000000000" (or whatever color settings you like instead of "4444") with the "replace all" option. Save the file. This takes no longer than half a minute.
Forgot to mention that I had to do this to the VIDEO_TS VOB file for the main menu highlight to change color and the VTS_01_0 VOB file for the rest of the chapters to highlight in the color that I want them to.
My source video clip is NTSC 720x480 29.97fps progressive.
I want to encode it to the DVD format so I can watch it on a regular televison and also on my computer. If I encode the clip as progressive, I know it will look jumpy on the regular televison as it needs to be interlaced. If I encode it as interlaced, I am afraid of hurting the progressive quality and introduce interlace lines which would look bad on the computer.
This would be very simple if my source was 24fps as I would just use pulldown.exe to set the flags. But since my source is 30fps progressive and can't be decimated to 24fps, I am confused how to encode it.
Is there some setting I should use in TMPGEnc or perhaps pulldown.exe to properly encode this.
Encode it progressive. It will not become jerky.
But if it is realy 29.97 fps progressive, it must have be deinterlaced by someone. But that's no Problem, both is possible: 29.97i and 29.97p.
The new Canon digital camcorders capture in true 30fps progressive frame.
In the past, the progressive scan option on camcorders was limited to 15fps and then somehow it would be played back at 30fps. But now camcorders are coming to market with true 30fps video.
To me it would make better sense for the camcorder to capture at 24fps and then put pulldown flags to produce the 30fps, that way it keeps with the movie industry and dvd standard. But I don't design camcorders.
I am having trouble trying to convert some WMV files to MPEG1
I have checked the files with AVIcodec and this is what it says about them
File : 55 Mb (55 Mb), duration 0:10:26, type ASF, 1 audio stream(s), quality 28 %
Video : 52 Mb, 708 Kbps, 11.515 fps, res. 480*360 (4:3), WMV3 = Windows Media Video 9, Supported
Audio : 2.54 Mb, 33 Kbps, 44100 Hz, 1 chan., 0x161 = Windows Media Audio 9, Supported
Here are my priorities in TEMPGEnc
Direct show MM reader 2
AVI VFW reader 1
AVI2(open DML) 1 reader 1
MPEG-1 decoder 1
BMP/PPM/TGA/JPG reader 0
Wave file reader 0
QuickTime reader 0
TMPGEnc Project File reader 0
Any idea what I might be missing, or need to change?
>Any idea what I might be missing, or need to change?
you have to convert the audio to wav with something like 'dbpoweramp music converter'(google search it), you'll need to download the wma/wmv codec that can be found at the same site.
when youve converted the file to wav, load that wav as your audio source
Thanks for the suggestion.
The audio isn't the problem. I can extract and convert the audio with either CoolEdit or Goldwave.
The problem is the video portion of the files.
I have just captured my movie clip for editing into microsoft DV avi format but then I can't use TMPGEnc to convert the file to VCD format but TMPGEnc can't open the file. It doesn't support it. ANyway plug-ins for this?
OK, I'm attempting to convert some files to VCDs, but for some reason, no matter what I set the video bitrate at, it ALWAYS comes out over 800MB... Is there something I'm missing?
if your video is over 80mins then youll have to split it on put it on 2cds(or more), use merge and cut for that. lowering the bitrate will just give you a horrible quality mpeg, i'd just leave it on default 1500 (i think =). in saying that though if the file is less than 80mins and its showing it as much more than you expect, just use source range to set start frame and end frame,(its not getting to the root of the problem which is your source, but its a nice workaround).
>Also, what can I use for an external MP3 encoder?
if your trying to encode a vid file with mp3 audio id convert the audio to wav, especially if its vbr mp3, if you try encoding the vid without converting the audio you'll most probably get an mpeg with outta sync audio, or simply no audio at all. many programs are able to convert mp3 audio including virtual dub
You need to set the stream type to 'MPEG1 VCD(non standard)' otherwise TMPG will just add padding to make the file have standard VCD bitrate.
Run your MPEGs through the 'simple multiplexer' using the above setting to remove the padding.
>You need to set the stream type to 'MPEG1 VCD(non standard)' otherwise TMPG will just add padding to make the file have standard VCD bitrate.
>Run your MPEGs through the 'simple multiplexer' using the above setting to remove the padding.
That's EXACTLY the answer I was looking for..
Cheers :)
I would like to be able to fix a typo on a menu on a DVD that was authored with TMPGEnc DVD Author. I'd saved the Project, but no longer have the source mpg...
Depends what it is, AVI, MPEG...what?
TMPG will usually detect whether a source is interlaced or not, but to be sure you can use the wizard which will scan the file first and set the parameters accordingly.
If I use the wizard or import the source directly, TMPGEnc always things it's interlace. However DVD2AVI says it's progressive material. Hence, who's right and who's wrong?
So it's an MPEG or a VOB we're talking about here, which incidently you didn't answer, download 'Bitrate viewer' and it will tell you all you need to know.
I created a DVD with menus using the Cloud 1 template, and the motion menu feature disabled. When I try to play this DVD in my CyberHome CH-DVD 300/S
standalone player, the menu appears with the first selection highlighted, but the UP/DOWN/LET/RIGHT buttons on my remote have no effect. It is still possible--but very inconvenient--to navigate through the DVD using only the 1 - 10 number buttons on the remote.
Menus on standard commercial DVDs work properly with my player. Is this a bug in DVD Author?
Here's another bit of info. If I create a DVD that starts up with a track menu, then it will not play in my Sampo DVE-660. But if I create the DVD to start by playing the first track instead, it works (even though the menu is included and also works). These DVDs were burned at 1x with a Sony DRX-510UL and Nero 6.